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  2. Posted

    My opinion is: if you can make it work, and make it fast, then make it portable, you're on the right path. I know a few emulators that worked on portability first, ended up being very slow (but at least you could play it on a NEXT or something)...

     

    The emulator that worked on the principle I liked was FCEUX. While Nestopia is accurate, it's slow. FCEUX found a way to be snappy and largely accurate. though, it did take quite a few years.

  4. Posted · Edited by Csonicgo

    I dunno, man. Last I read about this game, they were selling in-game bonuses for real-world money.

     

    Well yeah, you can buy super cool "apparel" for your character, but most of the weapons are gotten with achievements or the reward system. There's nothing you can't get for free in the game, sans some silly hats or shirts or whatnot.

     

    Edit: Skyrim is the same way now. And so is DOTA 2. looks like everyone is going the "pay 99 cents for cool shoes" route.

  6. Posted

    I liked the game as a tech demo, which is kinda what it was. the game needed some fleshing out though, but it was "getting an engine out there" for other developers to gawk at and want to use, plus Doom4 is going to use it, so there you go.

     

    Lots of graphics card makers ate crow after this game, with their "our drivers are faster than the other guy" kind of advertising. This game really taxed graphics cards.

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  7. Posted · Edited by Csonicgo

    You mean Team Fortress 2. :) I played Team Fortress back in the 90's. TF2 had been in development nearly as long as Duke Nukem Forever, and I was disappointed in the result. At first, TF2 was pretty fun, but when they introduced unlockable weapons that you had to join grind-parties to earn, they lost my interest.

     

    eh, that's been removed for quite some time. they switched to a more "if you kicked a lot of arse, you get something" system. Idle servers don't work anymore.

    SOURCES: my friends when I asked them about this. I could be wrong. I've only been playing since october but really started in May. I had school and left it alone.

     

     

    I'm also told that LAN removes all the new guns so you're stuck with the original weapons which are way more balanced. But I love the laser guns so much!

     

    EDIT: I played the Quake Version of TF, missed the "newer version" entirely. I heard it was quite fun though.

  9. Posted

    Oh, My lord.

     

    If there was ever a Rated-R Pixar movie, I would hope it to be something like this.

     

    I haven't had this much fun in years. It's late 60s themed, filled with futuristic weapons that spark and fizzle, and each one of the characters are unique and have hilarious actions and speech they say in game.

     

    the Demolitions man (Demoman) is my favorite so far. He's your stereotypical Scottish Nationalist (Although he's black, which throws a wrench into the whole stereotype thing, which is quite hilarious, but this game pulls it off well). He has a custom grenade launcher like the quake version, but it's a hell of a lot easier to control. it's quite satisfying to use the Stickybomb weapon to line a doorway with sticky spike bombs, waiting for the next victim to dare to walk into the room.

     

    I know this game came out in 2007, but it's still graphically appealing and the gameplay is really tight (it's still tweaked to this day!).

     

    Plus, Americana is jut oozing out of this.

     

    I highly recommend this. Does anyone here play this game?

  12. Posted

    To me it seems like it just added needless costs and needless delays in bringing games over to other markets.

     

    That's exactly what I felt about it. I suppose Nintendo were getting paranoid about selling games in the west, since Atari had left a bad taste in the public's mouth. I can understand that, but not the butchering/redoing the hardware to keep third-party developers out of the game (unless they talked with NOA first)

  13. Posted

    I've always been interested in the various differences between the NES and Famicom, and most of the reasons for NOA doing this never satisfy me. I've heard everything from Piracy to "keeping ET away", obviously in reference to the cart that "caused the 1983 crash" (but that is debatable too).

     

    In the long run, I've read that a lot of titles weren't released for the NES - or retooled completely, simply because of the NES redesign, and part of it was the loss of "extension pins" - they were moved to the bottom of the unit. As a result, any games using special chips had to be butchered or recoded for US markets. This seems really silly in retrospect, economically. Plus, I would hate to know that my magnum opus for the Famicom, if I had programmed a game for it, would have to be butchered to work on a console which design changes were, in hindsight, really really silly to do, in my opinion.

     

    Then again I look at Wolfenstein 3D and then Doom for the SNES and wonder what went wrong.

     

    I've always enjoyed Akumajou Densetsu for the Famicom. I had never played the NES version, and have ordered it online this week. From what I've played in an emulator... Dracula's Curse feels hollow. It's weird to describe it that way, as the gameplay seems to be fine (it's not really changed much other than some monster behavior and the jumping isn't quite right) but everything else seems to be diluted.

     

    Does anyone think Nintendo's idea of radically changing their hardware through the different regions was a good idea at the time? For a collector like me, it makes some titles impossible to get. Luckily, I was able to get a Famicom/NES converter cart that let me play US games. my friends had no such luxury.

     

    (Was I just spoiled for having a Famicom as a child while everyone else had a grey VCR? :-D )

     

    Is there anything else I'm missing? And if you were NOA: would you have authorized this?

  14. Posted · Edited by Csonicgo

    I have an NES Advantage arcade stick with a broken 1st player connector. Is there any hope of resurrecting the first player slot? The 2nd player connector works fine, which is fine in 1-player situations, but I'd like to have it 100% working. Has anyone here repaired/cleaned one and can tell me how to take this thing apart and what to look for?

     

    Much Thanks!

     

    EDIT: can someone move this to hardware? THANKS!

  21. Posted

    I recently scored a Beat em & eat em, which is like a easy Kaboom! Great game. I also like Party Mix and GI joe 2 player.

    Of course being an avid Backgammon player, I love that game too. And all the games the others mentioned.

     

     

    LOL! Beat Em and Eat Em? is that the one where....uhh nevermind the description, I know what game you're talking about. Had no idea that was for paddle controllers.

     

    Did someone make a hack of that to make it less adult, or was that another adult game?

     

    I actually love night driver because it's fun to play at night when you can't sleep. That happens a lot these days.

  23. Posted · Edited by Csonicgo

    Apologies in advance if this thread has been done but I've always wanted to do a thread like this, and a General thread gave me the idea.

     

    Are there any games for the 2600 that scared you as a child? Aside from the games that are SUPPOSED to scare you, are there any games that unintentionally still give you the creeps?

     

    As a kid, I was scared of the progressive game mode of Super breakout. i always had a fear of impending doom, and falling blocks at a steady pace really scared me more than anything. now I find it a great challenge.

     

    Games that still creep me out. Ski Run by Ariola. Where do I even start? The creepy egyptian-sounding music, the creepy looking death dance, the ever-changing colors of the mountains... It's like a really bad LSD trip.

  25. Posted · Edited by Csonicgo

    Not to start a tempest in a teapot but... :D

     

    Who here actually plays or has played the more intellectually stimulating 2600 Titles? I mean such games like Backgammon, Casino, Euchre, Bridge, Checkers, Chess, etc.

     

    Which ones are your favorites and were these games actually helpful in practising your skills?

     

    I really would like to get into these games (espeically Video chess and Activision Bridge) but to be honest, to a person who rarely plays games like these (especially Bridge) the games can be almost cryptic. If you have any pointers on playing some of these games (especially Bridge, since the manual had nothing on how to play, and Euchre's manual was kind of confusing)

     

    Thanks!

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